After an expose by anti-corruption activist Alexey Navalny, the property manager of Igor Shuvalov, Russia’s first deputy prime minister, has explained that he is handling Shuvalov’s property essentially in a blind trust.
The Ukrainian military claims that single-launch Grad rockets were used near Gorlovka.
Irina Birna says Russia’s problems today are a reflection of a much older problem: Russia was and remains “a prison-house of nations.”
Russian officials now understand that Soviet-style Islam is every bit as much a threat to the Russian state as is Islamist extremism.
A new Channel One series, “Salam Maskva,” filmed three years ago but released only now provides a bleak but brutally honest picture of Moscow and of what “friendship of the peoples” looks like in Russia today.
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Oleksandr Onyshchenko is suspected of stealing around 3 billion hryvnia from state funds.
Dmitry Peskov, Russian presidential press secretary, confirmed the resignation of children’s ombudsman Pavel Astakhov, who said he got a “stern rebuke” from the president.
Two Ukrainian servicemen were wounded.
Although lighter than in recent days, fighting continued along the line of contact in the Donbass, notably along the Mariupol highway.
